WhatsApp is a popular instant messaging platform that we all use to share photos and videos. There are many such photos on WhatsApp. As soon as we run out of storage, we sometimes delete WhatsApp photos or videos at once. What to do if there are photos or videos that you want to delete like this?, there are easy ways to get these media files back.
Even after deleting the WhatsApp chats, it is not easy to find the media files. On such occasions the gallery will come to our aid. Apart from this, even deleted files can be retrieved from the gallery through the file manager. Another way to recover WhatsApp media files is to recover files from the cloud. Let’s see how to get back deleted WhatsApp photos and videos through these ways.
Gallery can be used
All the photos and videos coming through WhatsApp are stored in the phone gallery. Therefore, even if you delete the photos and videos you receive through WhatsApp from the chat, they will not be deleted from the gallery on the device. These media files can be viewed in the gallery on Android and iOS devices. So even after deleting the chats, you can still access the media files.
WhatsApp media folder
The media of apps including WhatsApp is saved in the phone’s storage. The File Manager app is required to access this data. You can access the media files by going to the file manager app and going to the WhatsApp folder. This is the folder where all the WhatsApp data is saved. You can also recover deleted photos and videos from this folder.
Backup from the cloud
WhatsApp messages and media files are backed up from iOS devices to iCloud and from Android devices to Google Drive. Even deleted files can be recovered by accessing iCloud or Google Drive on your smartphone. There are some tricks to backup WhatsApp data. WhatsApp can be deleted to automatically retrieve all data from the cloud. Let’s see how to do this.
What to do to get back up
Uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp. Login with your phone number. Make a request to restore data from backup during setup. All your backed up chats and media will be restored after the setup completes your WhatsApp data.
You can turn off the delete media option in the gallery
While deleting WhatsApp media from WhatsApp chat we also provide option to accidentally delete them from phone gallery. We can turn this off. If turned off, the media will be deleted only from the chat. Let’s see how to do this.
- Open the chat on WhatsApp
- Select the media and tap on the delete icon
- WhatsApp will provide four options
- Turn off the option to delete media from device gallery as well.